BROOMFIELD, Colo.--June 8, 2005--McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq?)(Nasdaq?), a leading provider of storage networking solutions, today announced Rooms to Go (RTG), a billion-dollar furniture retailer that ships more than 20,000 pieces of furniture per day and tracks in excess of 100,000 inventory transactions per day, deployed a McDATA business continuance/disaster recovery solution.

"Rooms to Go is dedicated to high-quality products and customer service levels. We meticulously track our customer's inventory to ensure it's delivered on time and without hassle," said Russ Rosen, chief information officer for Rooms To Go, Inc. "Therefore, we wanted a high-performance solution to ensure our customer information is secure and accessible -- even if a disaster occurred. Not only was RTG able to deploy a disaster recovery solution at half the price, but because of McDATA and IBM's support, we could leverage existing resources, saving us more time and money. The McDATA solution protects our key furniture inventory transaction applications to promote business continuity and customer service."

Rooms to Go, which has operations in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, deployed McDATA's Intrepid(R) 6064 Directors and Eclipse(TM) 1620 SAN Routers. In the event of a disaster, the newly deployed BC/DR solution enables the company to be up and running within a few hours versus days when compared with the legacy infrastructure. McDATA's Eclipse SAN routers also enable the mirroring of data over a distance of 22 miles between the production facility and DR site.

"Rooms to Go's customers rely on the company to deliver quality products and excellent customer service, and Rooms to Go relies on McDATA to protect their data and ensure operations," said Wayne Morris, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, McDATA. "Utilizing McDATA solutions, customers are given the building blocks to maximize benefits of the tiered network infrastructure of the Global Enterprise Data Infrastructure."

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